Tech Times Are Good,
So Why Not File a Lawsuit?

By

Holman W. Jenkins Jr.

Updated July 20, 2005 12:01 a.m. ET

Executives from chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices took long walks by the seashore. They gazed into the night sky. Why weren't they selling more computer chips? Enlightenment finally came: The reason was the illegal machinations of their much larger rival, Intel.

Last month, they filed a lawsuit.

Were this the 1990s, when technology held center ring, the lawsuit would have been a bigger story. AMD took out newspaper ads to...